Work Mentor
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European Monitoring Conference in Brussels.
The Workmentor Projcet was one of the projects presented in a European Monitoring Conference on workplace education in Brussels February 11th and 12th 2014.
See Workmentor presentation.
Final conference
The final conference presenting the Workmentor project was held in Akureyri Iceland Friday October 4th 2013. Partner Meeting 5 was held the day before.
Work Mentor project - Mentoring in the Workplace for VET
Work Mentor is a project within the Transfer of Innovation (ToI) section of the Leonardo da Vinci programme for Vocational Training.
The Leonardo da Vinci programme is a part of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme.
Goals and objectives
The main objective of the project is to transfer mentoring methods into the relationship between a member of staff and a student in a workplace.
The employee / workmentor is guiding the student, giving the student a more secure beginning in the workplace but at the same time the mentor will work with the student towards the goal of becoming a fully functional member of staff and a qualified worker.
Partners
The partners of WorkMentor are seven schools and institutions involved in vocational education.
VMA, Akureyri, Iceland. Íslenska
Gower College Swansea, Wales.
Riverside Training Hereford, England, Riverside had to withdraw from the project after the first year, replaced by Broadshoulders.
Axxell, Southwest Finland,
Jules Rieffel, Nantes, France,
IFSAT, Harderwijk, Netherlands, working with Het Idee van Harderwijk.
Skjetlein, Trondheim, Norway.
Agenda
The group will meet five times during the project. Here is a Gantt chart of the proposed work in the project.
PM1. Partner meeting 1 in Wales.
PM2. Partner meeting 2 in Norway.
PM3. Partner meeting 3 and a training of trainers workshop in France.
PM4. Partner meeting 4 in Finland.
PM5. Partner meeting 5 and a final conference in Iceland.
Resources - Products
Please view documents and other sources and products of the project.
All introductory materials and documents used in the project in different languages.
Pictures from Work Mentor
Please have a look at people working on the project in meetings and in workshops.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission, Life Long Learning Programme. This document reflects the views of the authors only, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
